While World History classes teach World War II from the world's perspective, this book is designed to focus on the American's effort and impact on the war. From isolationism to the Lend Lease Act of 1941 to Total War - this book covers it all in an engaging way that will keep your students at the forefront of the action in your Social Studies classroom.
1. Neutrality
Aggression by the Axis
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer How to analyze World War II
Lesson #2 Mapping How Hitler conquered Western Europe
Lesson #3 Videos The world at war
Lesson #4 Videos Why we fight
Lesson #5 Group analysis Why Hitler was able to conquer Western Europe
England stood alone
Lesson #6 Profile Winston Churchill
Lesson #7 Videos The Battle of Britain
Lesson #8 Quotations England stood alone
The U.S. was neutral
Lesson #9 Group analysis Isolationism
The Lend Lease Act, 1941
Lesson #10 Document FDR speech: “The Arsenal for Democracy”
Lesson #11 Document The Lend Lease Act
Lesson #12 Internet The Lend Lease Act
Lesson #13 Group analysis The Lend Lease Act
Lesson #14 Game The ABCs of Isolationism
Review
Lesson #15 Game Mars / Venus
Lesson #16 Game Honk if you hate history!
Lesson #17 Game Stump the teacher
Lesson #18 Game The Last Man Standing
Test 49 questions
2. Pearl Harbor
The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor
Lesson #1 Profile General Tojo
Lesson #2 Lecture Pearl Harbor
Lesson #3 Film “Tora! Tora! Tora!”
Lesson #4 Internet Pearl Harbor
The U.S. entered World War II
Lesson #5 Document FDR’s War Message to Congress
Lesson #6 Video Why Pearl Harbor?
Lesson #7 Game The ABCs of Pearl Harbor
Test 31 questions
3. On the Homefront
Lesson #1 Lecture What is “total war”?
Lesson #2 Group analysis Total War
On the Homefront
Lesson #3 Document On the Homefront
The Selective Service System
Lesson #4 Internet The Selective Service System
Peacetime industries converted to wartime production
Lesson #5 Internet The war industries
Women were hired in defense plants
Lesson #6 Profile Rosie the Riveter
Lesson #7 Internet Women were hired in wartime factories
African Americans were hired by defense plants
Lesson #8 Profile A. Philip Randolph
Lesson #9 Document A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?"
Lesson #10 Document Executive Order 8802
Lesson #11 Group analysis The Fair Employment Practices Commission
Lesson #12 Internet African Americans were hired by defense plants
The War Labor Board
Lesson #13 Lecture The War Labor Board
Lesson #14 Internet The War Labor Board
Lesson #15 Internet John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers
New technology / New weapons
Lesson #16 Internet New weapons
Civilians had to make sacrifices
Lesson #17 Document “A Call for Sacrifice”
Lesson #18 Document Fireside chat: “Equality of Sacrifice”
Lesson #19 Internet The whole nation mobilized for war
Lesson #20 Internet Political cartoons: Civilians made sacrifices for the war effort
Lesson #21 Internet Political cartoons: Civilians made sacrifices for the war effort
Lesson #22 Internet How the U.S. paid for World War II
Wartime censorship and propaganda
Lesson #23 Internet Wartime censorship and propaganda
Summary
Lesson #24 Group analysis The Top Ten Ways the U.S. changed during World War II
Lesson #25 Game The ABCs of World War II on the homefront
Test 187 questions
4. Civil liberties / Civil rights
The Four Freedoms
Lesson #1 Document The Four Freedoms
Lesson #2 Internet The Four Freedoms
Racial segregation in the armed forces
Lesson #3 Profile Dr. Charles Drew
Lesson #4 Internet Segregation in the armed forces
Lesson #5 Profile Dorie Miller
Lesson #6 Profile The Tuskegee Airmen
Lesson #7 Feature film The Tuskegee Airmen
Lesson #8 Internet Tuskegee Airmen, 442nd Regiment, Navajo Code Talkers
Japanese Internment
Lesson #9 Lecture Japanese internment
Lesson #10 Document Executive Order 9066
Lesson #11 Internet Japanese internment
Lesson #12 Group analysis Japanese internment
Lesson #13 Videos Korematsu v United States
Lesson #14 Group analysis Korematsu v United States
Lesson #15 Group analysis Korematsu v United States
Lesson #16 Group analysis Korematsu v United States
Lesson #17 Debate Japanese internment
The Holocaust
Lesson #18 Internet The Holocaust
Lesson #19 Internet Half the Jewish population fled Nazi Germany
Lesson #20 Internet What did the U.S. government do?
Lesson #21 Internet The American press did not cover the Holocaust
Lesson #22 Internet What did Jewish Americans do?
Lesson #23 Internet American soldiers stumbled onto the concentration camps
Lesson #24 Game The ABCs of civil rights and civil liberties during WW2
Test 152 questions
5. The War in Europe
The Balance of Forces
Lesson #1 Game How hard would it be to defeat Nazi Germany?
The Soldiers
Lesson #2 Film Foot Soldiers: The Allies
Lesson #3 Film Foot Soldiers: The Axis
Lesson #4 Film “The War” - a documentary by Ken Burns
The Strategy
Lesson #5 Profile Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Lesson #6 Lecture The Allied Strategy
The Allies first fought in North Africa
Lesson #7 Mapping The Allies landed in North Africa.
Lesson #8 Profile Rommel: The “Desert Fox”
Lesson #9 Videos The Allies invaded Italy
Lesson #10 Internet World War II in North Africa
Lesson #11 Group analysis Top Ten Reasons why the U.S. fought in North Africa and Italy
D-Day, 1944
Lesson #12 Profile General Dwight Eisenhower (Ike)
Lesson #13 Mapping D-Day
Lesson #14 Internet D-Day
Lesson #15 Group analysis Top Ten Reasons why D-Day was important
Lesson #16 Quotations D-Day
Lesson #17 Group analysis D-Day
Battle of the Bulge, 1944
Lesson #18 Internet Battle of the Bulge
Lesson #19 Film “Patton” starring George C. Scott
Invading Nazi Germany, 1945
Lesson #20 Mapping Invading Nazi Germany
Lesson #21 Internet The Allied invasion of Nazi Germany
Lesson #22 Quotations The Americans in Nazi Germany
Summary
Lesson #23 Game The ABCs of the European theater
Lesson #24 Game Can you speak German?
Test 86 questions
6. The War in the Pacific
The British were already defeated in Asia
Lesson #1 Film “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
Lesson #2 Film “Bridge over the River Kwai”
General Douglas MacArthur
Lesson #3 Profile Douglas MacArthur
Lesson #4 Mapping The War in the Pacific
Lesson #5 Mapping Fighting in the South Pacific
Lesson #6 Internet The War in the Pacific
Lesson #7 Quotations The War in the Pacific
Lesson #8 Group analysis Top Ten Reasons why the war in the Pacific was tough
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Lesson #9 Profile Albert Einstein
Lesson #10 Document The Manhattan Project
Lesson #11 Internet The Manhattan Project
Lesson #12 Profile President Harry Truman
Lesson #13 Internet The decision to drop the atomic bomb
Lesson #14 Profile Emperor Hirohito
Lesson #15 Group analysis Top Ten Reasons why the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb
Lesson #16 Group analysis Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Lesson #17 Group analysis Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Lesson #18 Debate Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Summary
Lesson #19 Game The ABCs of the Pacific theater
Lesson #20 Game Can you speak Japanese?
Lesson #21 Game Who am I?
Lesson #22 Quiz Leaders of World War Two
Lesson #23 Group analysis Rank! Evaluate the leaders of World War Two
Lesson #24 Game The ABCs of the leaders of World War Two
Lesson #25 Game Can you talk like Ike?
Test 81 questions
7. The Results
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer Four Results
The Nuclear Age
Lesson #2 Internet The Nuclear Age
The United Nations
Lesson #3 Lecture The United Nations
Lesson #4 Document The United Nations Charter, 1945
Lesson #5 Document The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Lesson #6 Profile Eleanor Roosevelt
The Marshall Plan
Lesson #7 Profile George C. Marshall
Lesson #8 Document The Marshall Plan
Lesson #9 Lecture The Marshall Plan
Lesson #10 Political cartoons The Marshall Plan
Lesson #11 Internet The Marshall Plan
Lesson #12 Group analysis The Marshall Plan
Lesson #13 Group analysis The Marshall Plan
Lesson #14 Group analysis The Marshall Plan
Summary
Lesson #15 Quotations The Results of World War Two
Lesson #16 Game The ABCs of the consequences of World War Two
Lesson #17 Game Can you talk like Harry Truman?
Student essays
Lesson #1 Expressive essay “I am FDR . . .”
Lesson #2 Narrative essay “I am FDR . . .”
Lesson #3 Informative essay “I am FDR . . .”
Lesson #4 Persuasive essay “I am FDR . . .”
Student projects
Lesson #1 Student projects The Bataan Death March, and more.
Review
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer How to analyze World War Two
Lesson #2 Graphic organizer Who, what, where, when, why, and how?
Lesson #3 Game Famous places in World War Two
Lesson #4 Group analysis World War Two: What do you think of it?
Lesson #5 Group analysis World War Two was great.
Test 92 questions
1. Neutrality
When World War II began in 1939, the U.S. remained neutral
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